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New Jersey should enact changes in its business tax to close “loopholes” and end tax
breaks for large corporations to add as much as $450 million in annual state revenue,
a left-leaning policy group said.

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), in a Dec. 6
report, said that the state’s “broken” tax system has lost billions of dollars over the
past decade from provisions giving preferential treatment to large corporations. That
money could have been “better used to help create a prosperous state with a strong
economy and thriving communities,” the group said.

The report adds to continuing tax debates as Gov.-Elect Phil Murphy (D) prepares to
take office Jan. 1 after eight years of the administration of Gov. Chris Christie
(R). Furthermore, the Republican plan to overhaul the federal tax code is expected
to place fiscal strains on high-tax states, including New Jersey.

Specific NJPP recommendations included expanding combined reporting, to raise up to
$290 million a year; reversing a recent tax cut for large S corporations and updating
the state’s tax structure for limited liability corporations ($41 million); and adopting
a throwback rule for “nowhere sales” by multistate businesses ($127 million).

NJPP also recommended a narrowing of corporate subsidy programs, a step that it said
wouldn’t yield immediate revenue gains but would “help put New Jersey on a stronger
footing in the future while making for smarter economic development overall.”

New Jersey tax revenue has stagnated since the last recession, “leaving the state
to rely on other taxes or cut vital services to make ends meet,” NJPP Senior Policy
Analyst Sheila Reynertson, who wrote the report, said in a statement.

Lift Property Tax Deduction Cap?

In another tax development against the backdrop of federal tax reform, state Sen.
Joseph Pennacchio (R) Dec. 4 presented a bill (
S. 3598)
to lift New Jersey’s $10,000 annual cap on state income tax deductions for property
tax payments.

“Governor-elect Murphy and many state lawmakers of both parties have vocally opposed
federal tax reforms that would limit the federal deductibility of property taxes to
$10,000,”
said Pennacchio, the state Senate’s Republican whip. “At the same time, few have discussed
the negative impact of New Jersey’s long-standing $10,000 limit on our state’s property
tax deduction.”

Pennacchio said it would be “completely disingenuous to express outrage over limiting
the federal deduction to $10,000 for property taxes without doing anything to increase
the state deduction that already has such a limit.”

Current law allows for a federal deduction of sales, income, and property taxes paid
at the state and local level. Both the
House bill (H.R. 1) and the
Senate-amended bill don’t completely eliminate the deduction, preserving a property tax write-off up
to $10,000. However, Republican lawmakers are discussing a potential compromise that
would allow taxpayers to deduct state income tax, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin
Brady
(R-Texas) said Dec. 6. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) said Dec. 6 that he’s open to tweaking final tax legislation to allow a deduction
of state income taxes.

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